ANDERSON v. SPEAR

No. CIV.A. 99-189-JMH.

189 F.Supp.2d 644 (2002)

Hobart Ward ANDERSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Lloyd E. SPEAR, in His Official Capacity as Commonwealth Attorney for Greenup County, Kentucky, and as Representative of the Class of Commonwealth Attorneys in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky.

March 21, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Kenneth Bush, Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald PLLC, Louisville, KY, James Bopp, Jr., Heidi K. Meyer, Justin David Bristol, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Hobart Ward Anderson, Hoby for the Commonwealth.

Sheryl G. Snyder, Amy Denise Cubbage, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, KY, Janet M. Graham, Attorney General's Office, Frankfort, KY, D. Brent Irvin, Office of the Atty. Gen., Frankfort, KY, Brenda Kay Dinkins Allen, Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. and Env. Law Div., Frankfort, KY, for Lloyd E. Spear.

Sheryl G. Snyder, Amy Denise Cubbage, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, KY, Janet M. Graham, Attorney General's Office, Frankfort, KY, Jennifer Black Hans, Rosemary F. Center, Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, Frankfort, KY, D. Brent Irvin, Office of the Atty. Gen., Frankfort, KY, for Michael C. Wilson, A. B. Chandler, III, John Y. Brown, III, Janie Bruce, Charles W. Buchanan, John Chowning, Dave Disponett, Hade Durbin.

Sheryl G. Snyder, Amy Denise Cubbage, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, KY, Jennifer Black Hans, Rosemary F. Center, Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, Frankfort, KY, for Donald L. Cox, Judith Grisham Clabes, Scott C. Cox, David Shawn Samford, Robert E. Sanders, John L. Smith.

Sheryl G. Snyder, Amy Denise Cubbage, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, KY, Janet M. Graham, Attorney General's Office, Frankfort, KY, D. Brent Irvin, Office of the Atty. Gen., Frankfort, KY, for John Caudill.

D. Brent Irvin, Office of the Atty. Gen., Frankfort, KY, for Clifford Duvall.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HOOD, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This case presents a challenge to various provisions of the Commonwealth of Kentucky's election and campaign finance regulatory scheme. Plaintiffs Hobart Ward Anderson and Hoby for the Commonwealth (a write-in candidate for governor in 1999 and his campaign committee, respectively) bring what amounts to a ten-fold assault on Kentucky's statutory scheme of electoral and campaign...

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